Window-sash construction



Dec. 31, 1929. R. T. AXE

W INDOW SASH CONSTRUCTION Filed May 22, 1928 INV'ENTOR. x 9

fifw ATTORNEYS Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT oFi-"lcE RoY T. AxE, F SYRACUSE, NEw'YoRK, AssreNoR TO THE 0. M. EDWARDS COMPANY,

me, or SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK WINDOw-SASH Application. filed May 22,

This invention relates to metal sashes for railway cars,lbusses and the like and has for its object, a particularly simple, compact and ,narrow construction of the sash whereby the 6' sash is weather tight and firmly held against rattling.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters designate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view, partly broken away, of a window construction embodying my invention.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary elevation of the top rail.

Figure 3 is a through one of the stiles and the contiguous portion of the window guide.

This sash comprises generally, a sash member having a body portion of relatively small dimensions formed with a glass receiving channel on its inner side, an outwardly ex tending flange on its outer side for coacting with the window guide or stops and also a.

groove for receivinga weather strip on its outer side at the base of the flange, the weather strip in the groove and terminating short of the end ofthe flange'and coacting with the window guide.

Preferably, all four members of the sash, that is, the stiles and rails are provided with outwardly extending flanges, the flanges of all four of the members forming a continuous flange around the sash.

1 designates one of the stiles; 2 the top rail and 3 the bottom rail of the sash, all of these being substantially alike in construction although thebottom rail is of slightly different dimensions from the stile and top rail which are substantially duplicates. Each frame member is metal, preferably cast into the desired form, and includes a body 4 in the form of a web extending transversely of the plane of the sash and having a flange 5 at one end extending parallel to the lane of the. sash and forming with the b0 y, the head of a letter T, the web being the leg of the T.

'is thus located at the base of the flange 10 transverse sectional view CONSTRUCTION 1928. Serial No. 279,687.

The body is formed at its edge remote from the flange 5 with a head 6 disposed entirely on the outer side of the web, the head being formed with a groove in which is seated, a glazing strip 7. The outer portion of the flange 5 forms one side of a groove 8 for receiving a weather and buffer strip 9, the other side of this groove being formed by the head 6. The inwardly extending part of the flange 5 forms one side of a glass receiving channel, the other side of which is formed by the removable glazing strip 7. Y

10 is the outwardly extending flange, this projecting from the head 6. The groove 8 and the buffer 9 terminates short of the end of the flange 10. v 11 is the glass pane which is seated in the glass receiving channel, it being usually protected by a seat 12 of resilient material as rubber. The flange 10 on the stiles coacts with the. window guide 13- which is formed with a fixed stop 14 for engaging one side of the flange 10. The guide also includes a stop 15 op osed to the stop 14 and provided with suitable spring compression devices as spring pressed plungers 16 which coact with the flange 10 to press it toward the stop 14.

The stop 15 is in the form of a housing and is detachably secured to the body of the guide in any suitable manher as by a screw 17 The I buffer and weather strip 9 coacts with the top of the housing or stop 15. The flange 10 of the bottom rail coacts with the sill 18 lapping a vertical face 19 thereof, while the weather andbuifer strip 9 coacts with-a hori zontal surface 20 of the sill.

The flange 10 of the top rail is provided with a weather strip 21'on one face thereof which coacts when the sash is closed with the window frame 22 adjacent the top rail when the sash is closed. Also, the flange 10 of the C top rail has secured thereto, brackets 23 for coactingwith cables forming part of the counterbalancing means or window raising means. A By this construction, the window stops can be spaced apart but a small distance as the portion of the sash which coacts with the stops, that is, the flange 10 can be very narrow and hence, the sash can be confined to a tinuous flange around the circumference of the sash and the stiles and rails being formed with grooves parallel to the flange at the base thereof and a weather strip seated in the grooves and projecting out of the same and terminating short of the outer edge of the flange. I

2. A sash construction comprising a sash member having an outwardly extending flat flange for coacting with the sash guide and a groove parallel to the flange at the base thereof and a buffer and weather strip seated in the groove and projecting out of the same this 19 day of May, 1928 ROY T. AXE.

and terminating short of the outer edge of the flange.

'3. A sash construction comprising a sash member formed with a body portion includ ing a transverse web having a flange at one end extending parallel to the general plane .of the sash and forming one side of a glass receiving channel and one side of a weather strip and buffer receiving groove and also havlng a head at the other end thereof formed with an inwardly presented groove for receiving a glazing strip, the head forming the other side of the buffer and weather strip receiving groove, the head being also formed with an outwardly extending flange for coacting with the sash guide, a glass pane seated in the glass receiving channel and a glazing strip in the glazing strip receiving groove and a buffer and weather strip in its groove at the base of the outwardly extend- 111g flange and terminating short of the outer edge of the outwardly extending flange.

4E. The combination of a window guide formed with a stop, a secondstop opposed to the former stop and compression devices carrled-by the second stop, a sash formed with an outwardly extending flange for extending between the stops and arranged to be acted on by the compression device and a weather strip carried by the sash and located at one side of the flange at the base thereof and engaging the inner face of the second stop.

5. A sash comprising a sash member having an outwardly extending flange and a groove extending parallel to the flange at the base thereof and a weather strip seated in the groove and terminating short of the edge of the flange.

6. A sash construction comprising stiles and rails, the stiles and one of therails have 

